SOMALIA Presidents Aden Abdullah Osman 1908-2007 President 1960-67 Abdirashid Ali Shermarke 1919-1969 President 1967-69 Shaykh Moktar Muhammad Husayn 1912 President 1969-70 Muhammad Siyad Barrah 1919-1995 President 1970-91 Ali Mahdi Muhammad 1938 King 1991-2000 Muhammad Farah Aydid 1936-1996 Warlord 1995-96 Hussein Aydid 1962 Warlord 1996-98 Abdullahi Derow Isaq 1950-2006 President 2000 Abdiqasim Salad Hassan 1941 President 2000-04 Abdinur Ahmed Darman President in Mogadishu 2003-04 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed 1934 President 2004-08 Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed 1964 President 2006 Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys 1935 President 2006 Sheikh Aden Madobe 1955 President 2008-09 Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed 1964 President 2009-